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Set of the film ''Vatel''

Paris

After preparing the background, the scene painter has traced the outline of a large grotesque decoration and is starting to paint it.The artifact ...
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... is a scenographic floor made of ASC - Sceno muslin, here at the end of its preparation in the painting atelier.It will be installed ...
... on the plateau de tournage where the Baroque scenography of the nocturnal banquet will be reconstructed, in which the chariot of the sun will hover in the air ...

... on the central basins which, equipped with fountains, will be filled with water.The background was made with a Portal, constructed and covered with ASC - Sceno muslin with a trompe-l'œil painting, from which a perspective departs ...
... and it is made of three pairs of framed and shaped Set pieces, which have been covered again with ASC - Sceno muslin, that was painted with rocks.The perspective closes on a Backing flat ...
... always made of framed and painted ASC - Sceno muslin represented some rocks.The scenography by Jean Rabasse recalled in the Parc de Saint-Cloud, near Paris, the historical events that happened in 1671 in the Château de Chantilly.
For the scenography of Vatel, Jean Rabasse and Françoise Benoit-Fresco received in the 2001 the César award and an Oscar nomination.
Direction
Roland Joffé
Scenography
Jean Rabasse
Françoise Benoit-Fresco
Costumes
Yvonne Sassinot De Nesle
Photography
Robert Fraisse
Music
Ennio Morricone
Production
France, Great Britain, Belgium, 2000

Materials used in this production

ASC - Sceno

Muslin and canvas

Flat making

Fabric: tailoring types

Scenographic quadratures

Frames for stagecraft

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